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To cudgel. [R.] Bailey.

punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling. This satire, composed of actual fustigation. Motley.

So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas.

Producing, or yielding, gelatin; gelatiniferous; as, the gelatigeneous tissues.

As tight as can be made by the hand. Totten.

Hoity-toity.

Not capable of being mitigated, softened, or appeased. Coleridge.

In an immitigable manner.

Of the nature of, or pertaining to, impetigo.

A cutaneous, pustular eruption, not attended with fever; usually, a kind of eczema with pustulation.

Not contiguous; not adjoining or in contact; separate. Boyle. -- In`con*tig"u*ous*ly, adv.

The state of being indefatigable.

Incapable of being fatigued; not readily exhausted; unremitting in labor or effort; untiring; unwearying; not yielding to fatigue; as, indefatigable exertions, perseverance, application. "A constant, indefatigable attendance." South. Upborne with indefatigable wings. Milton.

Indefatigable quality; unweariedness; persistency. Parnell.

Without weariness; without yielding to fatigue; persistently. Dryden.

Indefatigableness; unweariedness. [Obs.] J. Gregory.

Indefatigable. [Obs.] Daniel.

o set on; to provoke; to incite; -- used chiefly with reference to evil actions; as to instigate one to a crime. He hath only instigated his blackest agents to the very extent of their malignity. Bp. Warburton.

Incitingly; temptingly.

The act of instigating, or the state of being instigated; incitement; esp. to evil or wickedness. The baseness and villainy that . . . the instigation of the devil could bring the sons of men to. South.